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* Department of Anatomy, University of Oslo, and
Institute of Immunology, Rikshospitalet, University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; and
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94121
NK cells have the ability to recognize and kill MHC-mismatched hemopoietic cells. In the present study, strain-specific differences in the rat NK allorecognition repertoire were exploited to generate Abs against receptors that may be involved in allogeneic responses. A mAb termed STOK9 was selected, and it reacted with subsets of NK cells and NKR-P1+ T cells from certain rat strains possessing highly alloreactive NK cells. The STOK9+ NK subset was broadly alloreactive and lysed Con A lymphoblast targets from a range of MHC-mismatched strains. The mAb STOK9 precipitated a 75-kDa dimeric glycoprotein from NK lysates. Expression cloning revealed that each monomer consisted of 231 aa with limited homology to other previously characterized killer cell lectin-like receptors (KLRs). This glycoprotein therefore constitutes a novel KLR branch, and it has been termed KLRH1. A gene in the central region of the natural killer gene complex on rat chromosome 4 encodes KLRH1. A mouse homolog appears to be present as deduced from analyses of genomic trace sequences. The function of KLRH1 is unknown, but it contains an immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif, suggesting an inhibitory function. The MHC haplotype of the host appears to influence KLRH1 expression, suggesting that it may function as an MHC-binding receptor on subsets of NK cells and T lymphocytes.
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